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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (25556)	8/31/2001 2:51:12 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Ashcroft Is Given Ultimatum on Documents nytimes.com In an odd semi-related sideline to that story, look who's going after the anointed one's anointed one on a similar stonewalling front. The Republican chairman of a House panel threatened today to call Attorney General John Ashcroft to testify next week to explain why the Justice Department had failed to respond to several subpoenas for internal documents. In a letter sent to Mr. Ashcroft, the chairman, Representative Dan Burton of Indiana, complained that the department had refused to turn over several important internal memorandums on a variety of matters related to the department's campaign finance inquiry. Congressional Democrats are in general pretty wimpy these days.

To: Lane3 who wrote (25556)	8/31/2001 3:08:36 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Maybe this hasn't gotten much press because it's pretty much a "dog bites man" not a "man bites dog" story. Business as usual isn't very newsworthy.

To: Lane3 who wrote (25556)	8/31/2001 3:28:43 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Change of topic, thanks for standing up for Desiderata. My faded and tattered copy of it still hangs where it has for more than twenty years, on the wall by my desk in my study. I know it's not what it purports to be, and I know parts of it are hokey, but the advice to "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence" is still some of the best advice we can give or take. (And advice I would sometimes do well to take more often!)